Author Topic: Solved - NEH 2741: Drawing for possible new fiberglass Studebaker for 1963  (Read 293 times)

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What's this and when and where did it appear - for 1 point?:

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Re: NEH 2741
« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2013, 04:45:16 AM »
Experts?
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Re: NEH 2741
« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2013, 05:50:57 AM »
Michelotti?
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Re: NEH 2741
« Reply #3 on: June 18, 2013, 06:43:04 AM »
Michelotti?

I don't know who did it hence it's not part of the question!
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Re: NEH 2741
« Reply #4 on: June 18, 2013, 08:12:28 AM »
I put my thumb over the front end of the drawing and noticed how much it looked like a Loewy Studebaker derivative (or maybe predecessor?)  . . . which led me to the excellent Studebaker Driver's Club web site  - LOTS of interesting stuff over there - and eventually to this car, which may actually have been a lead-in to the Avanti. The illustration is from the June 1962 Motor Trend, and the article simply calls it the"new fiberglass Studebaker". Looks more like a further development of the Hawk to me. I wonder if Studebaker was trying to decide which way to go - new car (the Avanti) or re-do the existing Hawk?  In any case, it's a neat design.  Very Italianesque, with both Ferrari and Maserati undertones.
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Re: NEH 2741
« Reply #5 on: June 18, 2013, 08:55:19 AM »
Yes, that's it.
Here's an enlarged picture; there is a signature on it but I still can't read it!
It's too long for 'Loewy'; any ideas anybody?
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